The rift between media maker and media consumer in the 21st century increasingly narrows, all the while with an undeniable partiality for the digital (tools for everyone (who can afford them)). Perhaps correspondingly, the propensity and persistence of images in public space becomes difficult to deny. In consideration, Preloaded does not present its audience with images to consider, but with tools to make.
A series of ten pinhole cameras, carefully hand-crafted, tested, and loaded with light-sensitive paper, were made and placed in anonymous locations around the Northfield community. Fire escapes, water fountains, and brick walls served as ideal locations to balance and strap these cameras, protectively wrapped in black plastic bags. These outermost shells leave everything to the imagination.
Enclosed with each camera is a set of instructions for making the image. Pinhole cameras were specifically chosen for their economy, simplicity of use, and tactile (almost magic) qualities that the image-making devices of our generation have forgotten.
The finder is asked to return the camera to the maker, along with a name an address, so that a print of his or her photograph may be returned.
Scans from the retrieved images will be posted as they come.
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